Britains charity watchdog said on Thursday it had frozen the accounts of Crescent Relief as part of a probe into allegations that the charity was linked to a plot to blow up transatlantic airliners. The Charity Commission said in a statement that a formal inquiry has been launched into the charity Crescent Relief and its bank accounts frozen in the wake of the allegations. Londons Metropolitan Police, which is leading the probe into the alleged conspiracy to put suicide bombers on US-bound planes, declined to comment on the statement or even to say whether it was investigating Crescent Relief. But Kenneth Dibble, director of the watchdogs Legal and Charity Services, said his commission was working with law enforcement agencies to get to the bottom of allegations of possible terrorist abuse of Crescent Relief funds.
The Charity Commission said last Saturday it was evaluating media reports of links between the charity and the alleged conspiracy to blow up US-bound planes. The Times newspaper said Saturday that Crescent Relief, which mobilised for the October 8 earthquake in Pakistan, was founded in 2000 by Abdul Rauf, the father of Rashid Rauf, who is being held in Pakistan over the plot. His other son Tayib Rauf was arrested in the central city of Birmingham in an August 10 dragnet in Britain when police arrested a total of 24 suspects in London, outside the capital and Birmingham. Tayib Rauf was not among 11 people charged in London this week, but he remains among nine others still being held by police for questioning.
Pakistani officials said last week that they had also detained Abdul Rauf, 52, at Islamabad airport. The Times said that Crescent Relief might prove links between the Rauf family and the five people arrested in High Wycombe, northwest of London, on August 10. The Times said the charity was operating in High Wycombe when all five suspects were helping with the earthquake relief effort.
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Crescent Relief, which mobilised for the October 8 earthquake in Pakistan
Mebbe this explains why Pakistan is suddenly clamming up. The trail of money breadcrumbs probably leads back to ISI management of the Kashmir terrorists.
Off Topic: Does anyone remember the good old days when "ISI" was the logo on a box of whipettes?
A man hailing from Hyderabad (India) has been arrested on charge of possessing a firearm at the Glasgow International Airport and produced in a Scotland court. Twentyseven-year-old Vishal Rao, said to be from Adarshnagar, was arrested on Sunday for being in unlawful possession of an air pistol. He was produced at the Paisley Sheriff Court.
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(RIA Novosti) - Five alleged members of armed gangs have been detained in Chechnya, a police source in the southern Russian republic said Thursday. Four men were arrested in the capital Grozny Wednesday, when officers found two Kalashnikov assault rifles, two Makarov pistols, six rounds for a grenade launcher, six grenades and ammunition were found in their apartment. "Police detained four members of an illegal armed group in a rented apartment in Grozny after 7 a.m. (after 3 a.m. GMT)," a police source said, adding that their identities were being checked.
The militant was detained in his home. He put up resistance and tried to escape. Police opened fire and injured the gunman, who was later hospitalized.
Another gunman was detained in the village of Velorechye in eastern Chechnya. "The militant was detained in his home. He put up resistance and tried to escape," police said. Police opened fire and injured the gunman, who was later hospitalized.
Pro-Moscow Chechen police and the remaining federal troops continue combing the republic for surviving militant groups. Sporadic fighting breaks out, although the active phase of the military campaign against militant forces has been declared over.
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(RIA Novosti) - Four Interior Ministry servicemen were killed and one wounded in an explosion at a garrison near a television tower in the Chechen capital, local police said Thursday.
... the explosion occurred through incompetent handling. Premeditated crime and terrorism have been ruled out...
The report was confirmed by the Military Prosecutor's Office of the North Caucasus joint forces.
Mikhail Renskov, an aide to the military prosecutor, said: "On Thursday at around 9:00 a.m. [5:00 a.m. GMT], servicemen at a garrison in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny were dismantling an explosive device." The device is believed to have been a mine, and "the explosion occurred through incompetent handling," he said. Premeditated crime and terrorism have been ruled out by investigators, Renskov said.
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THEY spread leaflets in suburban Sydney calling for jihad to destroy Israel - but the Federal Government can find no reason to outlaw extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir.
The group produces and distributes a graphic pamphlet which claims Israel has no right to exist and uses key dates in the Muslim calendar to signal the coming destruction of the Jewish state.
The propaganda has convinced many residents their suburbs are being overrun by Islamic extremists.
"These leaflets need to be published in The Daily Telegraph. People need to know about this terrorist organisation in Australia," one Bankstown resident said.
The hate pamphlet comes after The Saturday Daily Telegraph revealed an escalation of anti-Semitic behaviour since tensions in the Middle East flared last month.
Jewish university students were targeted and forced to hide their traditional skullcaps beneath baseball caps to avoid abuse, while attacks on synagogues have increased.
Members of Hizb ut-Tahrir arranged a meeting in Bankstown for last Saturday night under the title "Israel is an illegal state that Muslims will never accept".
But Bankstown City Council refused to allow the event on the grounds it could incite violence and the forum was shifted to the New Westella reception centre in Lidcombe.
Hizb ut-Tahrir is banned in Germany and British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for it to be outlawed in the UK, but the group remains legal here despite repeated calls for it to be banned.
A spokesman for Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said last night that security agencies were "very aware of the pamphlet being circulated by Hizb ut-Tahrir".
"Those who seek tolerance from other groups should show that same tolerance," the spokesman said.
Despite calls for the group to be banned in Britain over its alleged links to the London bombings, it was not deemed radical enough to be included on a proscribed list of terror groups here.
"In order for a group to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation it must be directly or indirectly engaged in, preparing, planning, assisting in or fostering a terrorist act," Mr Ruddock's office said.
Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesman Mohammed Abdalwahab claimed - in contrast to his propaganda - that the group calls for the non-violent overthrow of governments and the rise of Islamic governments and Sharia law.
He said Hizb ut-Tahrir, which he said was growing dramatically, was concentrating on "Muslim lands, at this stage" and "100 per cent supports Sharia law".
"Whatever Islam advocates, HT advocates," Mr Abdalwahab said.
Members of the group have reportedly been given entry to Sydney Boys High and Sydney University to espouse their views.
AUSTRALIA has offered to send military trainers to the Philippines to coach troops fighting Muslim militants as the two countries move closer to signing a military pact, Canberra's ambassador said.
Since 2002, Canberra and Manila have been holding informal talks to sign a status of forces agreement that would allow Australian troops to train with Filipino troops in the southern Philippines, a base for foreign and local Muslim rebels. We won't be conducting exercises in the area, Tony Hely, Australia's ambassador, said at a reception for journalists late last night night in Manila. It's more of capacity building, training and policy advice.
Mr Hely said Canberra and Manila hoped to finalise in two months the text of the military pact that could be ratified by the two countries by June next year.
The Philippine Constitution bars foreign troops from going into combat. But at any one time, there are up to 300 US military personnel advising local soldiers on how to ensnare Muslim extremists in the largely Roman Catholic country.
Like Washington, Canberra is anxious to prevent Muslim extremists from using the Philippines' remote southern islands as bases to plot attacks in the region and already provides annual training for about 60 Filipino soldiers in Australia.
After the United States, Canberra was the second largest provider of defence and counter-terrorism assistance at $13.5 million in 2006. Hely said his Government was also donating equipment to help Manila improve its counter-terrorism operations in the south, giving the army three flat-bottomed river boats to navigate the marshy areas on the southern island of Mindanao.
The Philippines, which spends around a third of its annual budget on interest payments, is reliant on overseas military aid to help fight long-running Muslim and communist insurgencies.
Australia has been expanding security cooperation with Southeast Asian states since the 2002 Bali bombings and the Philippines and Indonesia have been the main beneficiaries of Canberra's military assistance program. Apart from security aid, Australia was also planning to spend nearly $70 million this year to help develop communities in southern Philippines infiltrated by extremists.
An Aer Lingus flight from New York with 239 passengers aboard was evacuated in Ireland Friday following a threat against the aircraft, airport authorities said. Aer Lingus Flight 112 was evacuated during a scheduled stop at 2:50 a.m. EDT at Shannon airport in western Ireland, said airport spokesman Eugene Pratt. The plane was en route to Dublin.
The threat "came to a police station in Dublin, and referred to some explosives aboard that specific flight," Pratt said. No trace of explosives was found in the initial search.
Pratt said security officials decided to remove all baggage from the flight to be screened again. The Dublin-bound passengers were all being accommodated on another flight, Pratt said. "It wasn't an emergency landing. It wasn't a red alert. The flight was coming here anyway," Pratt said. The aircraft was parked at a remote stand as a precaution, he said. We'll be seeing a lot of copy catting of this, I suspect. Appeals to the juvenile jihad mentality.
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"Filking" is the time-honored tradition of transposing new lyrics onto old tunes. An example would be how the Christmas carol "What Child is This?" is actually a rehash of the much older English folk tune, "Greensleeves". Again, great job on, "I Want my Hez TV." Keep up the good work.
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OT Comics bit trivia : did you know that "connie Lingus" was a scifi-parody soft core erotism heroine created and drawn by Bruce Jones in the late 80's? Can't remember in which US mag/comics it was published, and google/wikipedia doesn't help me, but here it was tranlasted even here, in the "Echos des Savanes spécial USA".
Any comics geek here?
HOUSTON A college student's checked luggage on a Continental Airlines flight from Argentina contained traces of dynamite, authorities said, in one of four security incidents Friday involving U.S. flights.
Not a good day to fly
An American Airlines flight from England to Chicago was forced to land in Bangor, Maine, for security reasons, and a U.S. Airways jet was diverted to Oklahoma City after a federal air marshal reportedly subdued a passenger who was involved in an incident with a flight attendant, officials said.
An Aer Lingus flight from New York to Dublin was evacuated Friday morning during a scheduled stopover in western Ireland following a bomb threat that turned out to be unfounded, officials said.
Federal authorities are investigating why the student, who got off the Continental plane in Houston before it continued to Newark, N.J., had the explosive residue and what he intended to do with it, FBI spokeswoman Shauna Dunlap said.
I don't think you can do much with "residue" except get in trouble
The dynamite residue was found during a luggage search in a federal inspection station at Bush Intercontinental Airport shortly after Flight 52 landed at about 6 a.m. Marlene McClinton, spokeswoman for the Houston Airport System, said a bomb-sniffing dog "had a hit" on explosive residue during a further search. She said Customs and Border Patrol and the FBI shut down the customs area and began questioning the passenger who had the luggage. The identity and age of the passenger, a man, were not released.
Houston Fire Department Assistant Chief Omero Longoria said the man told fire officials that he works in mining and often handles explosives, so that would explain the residue. He said federal officials were investigating whether the man's explanation was true, and the fire department's role in the probe ended upon determining the man's bag did not contain a bomb. Dunlap declined to release specifics, but confirmed that the explosive was dynamite. Dunlap also said the man was from Connecticut and attends Lafayette College in Easton, Pa.
Lafayette College has a big engineering school and Pennsylvania is a coal mining region.
Continental spokeswoman Julie King said the CBP contacted the carrier when the dog detected the explosive. She said the flight left Buenos Aires, Argentina, and had 173 passengers. After landing at Newark Liberty International, Flight 52 was kept from the terminal as a precaution, said Marc La Vorgna, an airport spokesman.
In a second incident, Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Arlene Murray said American Airlines Flight 55 out of Manchester, England, was diverted to Bangor for security reasons. "The TSA learned of a reported threat to the aircraft while it was en route," Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Andrea McCauley said, declining to give further details. McCauley said FBI agents were interviewing passengers and crew members. She added that officers with dogs trained to detect explosives were also checking the plane.
The Boeing 767 carrying 167 passengers and 12 crew members was diverted at the request of the Transportation Security Administration, airline spokesman John Hotard said. "Nothing is wrong. We will put a new crew on it, and the flight will continue to Chicago," Hotard said. "The TSA had a security concern about the flight, and the concern has been addressed." Hotard declined to say whether any passengers were removed from the flight, but said the crew needed to be changed because of restrictions on how many hours they can work.
At Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport, law enforcement officers were questioning the passenger involved in the incident that led to the diversion of the U.S. Airways flight, airline spokesman Morgan Durrant said. The Charlotte, N.C.-bound flight had left Phoenix at 6:15 a.m. Durrant did not disclose the nature of the problem between the passenger and the flight attendant. Officials at the airport and the FBI did not immediately return telephone calls. A passenger interviewed by a television station said an air marshal tackled the man, but that it wasn't clear what prompted the incident.
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Twenty-three villagers kidnapped by naxalites in Dantewada district of Chhatisgarh on Friday were rescued after a gun battle, said police.
Armed naxalites stopped five jeeps on Friday morning and kidnapped the passengers from a spot in Gaganpalli area under the Errabore police station, 550 km from the state capital, Dantewada district Superintendent of Police Om Prakash Pal told PTI.
Five others were abducted from the same spot four days back, he added. State police and the Central Reserve Police Force personnel began searching the nearby jungle on receiving information about the kidnapping, Mr. Pal said. Seeing some people, police chased them and the naxalites opened fire, which was retaliated by the latter
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JAMMU, Aug 25: Special Operations Group (SOG), Jammu arrested three activists of Jaish-e-Mohammed and Hizbul Mujahideen from Tikri on Jammu-Srinagar national highway this morning when they were shifting a hawala consignment from Rajouri to Kashmir in a hired TATA Sumo.
Of three arrested militant activists, two belonged to Kashmir valley and third one to Rajouri district.
Official sources told the Excelsior that a SOG Jammu team, on a specific information, intercepted a TATA Sumo, which was operating as a taxi, at Tikri, short of Udhampur on Jammu-Srinagar national highway this morning on a specific information that three suspected militants were travelling in it carrying a hawala consignment between Rs 50,000 to Rs one lakh with them.
The SOG team apprehended the trio from the Sumo along with the hawala consignment and brought them here this afternoon where they are being subjected to sustained questioning to ascertain the source of money and their other links in Hizbul Mujahideen and Jaish-e-Mohammed outfit.
Trio have been identified as Abdul Ahad Bhat of Handwara, Bashir Ahmed of Rajouri and Mohd Amin Bhat of Srinagar.
During preliminary questioning, they disclosed that they were shifting the consignment from Rajouri to Srinagar and had to deliver it to the militants. They had already made several trips to Srinagar carrying hawala consignments. According to sources, the militants had been shifting hawala amount to Valley in installments to ensure that even if one group was arrested, the financial loss was very less. This was the reason that three militants were in possession of only Rs one lakh.
The SOG Jammu has sounded Rajouri Police about the arrests and sought their assistance in tracing the source of money. Some more arrests in hawala network were expected, the sources said.
Early this month, the SOG Jammu had eliminated two militants including a Pakistani at Jagti, Nagrota on the eve of Independence Day.
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Breaking the hawala network needs to be a top priority in the Global War on Terrorism.
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Tata Group plans to invest Rs 1.20 trillion ($25.8 billion) in the next three to five years in telecommunications, steel, chemicals, power and other industries, a Group official said on Thursday.
"These are the areas in which we believe the companies can contribute value for money for its customers and investors across the sectors," Kishor Chaukar, a Director at the Group's holding company, Tata Sons, said.
The group, India's second-largest business conglomerate by sales, comprises 93 companies including Tata Steel Ltd, Tata Motors Ltd, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, Tata Tea Ltd and Tata Power Co Ltd.
Tata officials also said the group's telecommunications firm, Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd, would cut bandwidth prices by up to 40 per cent and reduce the prices of international private leased circuits by a quarter.
New York-listed VSNL, India's top international telecoms provider, would also spend $600 million to build two new submarine cables between India and Europe, and Asia, the company said.
VSNL's shares ended up 0.4 per cent at Rs 416.10, while Tata Steel gained 2.2 per cent to Rs 517.35 in a firm Mumbai market, where the benchmark BSE index climbed 1.1 per cent.
On Wednesday, Tata Tea, which owns the Tetley brand, said it planned to buy 30 per cent of Energy Brands Inc, maker of Glaceau vitamin water.
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Two weeks after an alleged plot to blow up U.S.-bound airliners was thwarted in Britain, Pakistani authorities have screwed tight the faucet that had trickled intriguing details from their investigation.
Mystery surrounds the role played by "key suspect" Rashid Rauf, a Briton with dual Pakistani nationality who has family ties to a notorious Pakistani militant. Pakistani authorities allege Rauf communicated between an al-Qaida mastermind in Afghanistan and the plotters in Britain.
Britain has yet to confirm al-Qaida's involvement in the plans to bomb as many as 10 U.S.-bound aircraft. On Wednesday, it released Rauf's brother Tayib without charge. The Home Office in London refused to say Thursday whether it was still seeking Rashid Rauf's extradition.
Rauf, in his mid-20s, is the only one among the at least seven suspects arrested in Pakistan to have been named. He is being interrogated at a high-walled Pakistani intelligence headquarters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad.
It's unclear if he or the other suspects have been charged with any offense.
The lack of transparency is characteristic of terror cases in Pakistan, which has netted most of the top al-Qaida figures captured since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America. It contrasts with the legal process pursued in Britain, where despite tight control on information from the investigation, authorities named two dozen suspects soon after their arrest Aug. 10.
So far, British authorities have charged 11: eight with conspiracy to murder and preparing to commit terrorism, and three others with lesser offenses, including failing to disclose information.
Under Pakistani law, authorities can hold any terror suspect for up to a year without charge. Such a detention must be approved by a panel of judges. In practice, suspects in the custody of intelligence agencies have little or no recourse to the law.
"The difference between Britain and Pakistan is the absence of due process," said Samina Ahmed, South Asia project director for the International Crisis Group think tank.
"There's been very little information to come out, other than about Rauf, and I think that's because his links with some very prominent jihadi leaders were bound to come out in the open. It would have been impossible to keep it covered up," she said.
Rauf has ties by marriage to Masood Azhar, leader of an al-Qaida-linked Pakistani militant group, Jaish-e-Mohammed. Rauf was arrested Aug. 9 in the Punjab town of Bhawalpur, where he had settled and where the outlawed group has a strong presence.
A senior Pakistani government official, who like the intelligence official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the case's sensitivity, described Rauf as a "transmitter of messages" between the unnamed al-Qaida mastermind in Afghanistan and plotters in London.
The official said there was as yet no established link with Pakistani militant groups to the plot.
To many observers in Pakistan that stretches credibility, and could explain authorities' reluctance to divulge more details about the other suspects, even their nationalities.
A Pakistani intelligence officer said Rauf had been monitored for five or six months, and within two days of his arrest had given investigators a full picture of the plot. The information was shared with Britain and the U.S., whose leaders later praised Pakistan's role thwarting the plan.
President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, a key Western ally, has been robust in fighting al-Qaida and has taken steps to reel in militant groups that emerged here during the U.S.-backed jihad against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s and later, the Pakistan-endorsed fight against Indian rule in Kashmir.
But the continued presence of dangerous militants in Pakistan and its failure to regulate religious schools that cultivate extremists has left this Islamic nation open to allegations that it remains a magnet for jihadists such as the suicide bombers who killed 52 people on the London transit system in July 2005. Three of them visited Pakistan before the attacks.
Pakistan has also placed under house arrest Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, former leader of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Tayyaba group, which fights in Kashmir.
The government said his Aug. 10 detention was to prevent him from making a public address in Lahore on Aug. 12, but he has not been released, adding to the mystery surrounding Pakistan's investigations.
On Thursday intelligence agents took him away from his home in the city to an undisclosed location for questioning. Officials refused to disclose the reason.
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Two weeks after an alleged plot to blow up U.S.-bound airliners was thwarted in Britain, Pakistani authorities have screwed tight the faucet that had trickled intriguing details from their investigation.
Anyone want to bet that the trail of breadcrumbs was beginning to lead back to the ISI? [crickets]
All Jihadi groups are pawns of the ISI ...
Bingo, Cheregum Crelet7867! If not "all", certainly enough of them to warrant a whole sh!tload of grief for the Pakistanis.
(KUNA) -- Two suspected gunmen of the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), were killed in an encounter with the police in Doda district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir Thursday. The gunmen were killed in Khilandi, a hilly and thickly forested area in Doda district, news agency Indo-Asian News Service reported. The HM gunmen were active in the Doda district for some time, the news agency reported.
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Security forces and police gunned down two top militants of Hizbul Mujahideen outfit including an area commander belonging to the minority community at Kalihand, about 18 kms from Doda in early hours of this morning. This is for the first time that a minority community militant has been killed in the region though a couple of them had been arrested earlier.
Another militant, a section commander of Harkat-ul-Jehad Islami (HUJI) surrendered before security forces in Kishtwar today while 14 persons including eight civilians and six CRPF personnel were injured in a grenade blast at Seri Bazar in Bhadarwah tehsil of Doda tonight.
Official sources said security forces and police launched a search operation at Kalihand under the jurisdiction of Doda police station after developing an information that two Hizbul militants were likely to meet in the village last night for devising further operational strategy" of the outfit.
Security forces observed mysterious movement inside the house of one Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din at Kalihand and surrounded it. While Mohi-ud-Din was not present in the house, some women and children were present inside. Jawans and cops had to exercise restraint to avert civil casualties.
After about one and a half hour long efforts, security forces succeeded in bringing out the women and children from inside the house. Later, they asked the militants to come out and surrender but one of them lobbed a grenade on the security personnel. The grenade, however, exploded harmlessly.
Security forces and police opened firing killing both militants on spot. Bodies of the slain militants were recovered from the house this morning. They have been identified as Kuldeep Kumar alias K K Sharma alias Kamran alias Waqar, 27, son of Neel Kanth R/o Zihand, Doda, an area commander of Hizbul Mujahideen and Abdul Latief alias Khalid Kashmiri, a resident of Srinagar.
Four grenades were recovered from the slain militants, the sources said.
"This is for the first time that a militant of minority community has been killed in the region though a couple of them had been arrested earlier", they said pointing out that Sham Lal was another top militant of Hizbul Mujahideen from minority community who has been operating in Rajouri district.
Body of Kuldeep Kumar was handed over to his family at Zihand this afternoon after post-mortem. Police sources said KK was active in Hizbul Mujahideen since 1998 and was also reported to have converted to Islam. The family members hadnt performed his last rites till tonight. KKs name had also figured in a series of subversive activities including attacks on security forces and some massacres.
Killing of both the militants was a big blow to Hizbul Mujahideen, the sources said.
A militant lobbed a grenade at Seri Bazar from Khakhal Mohalla lane in Bhadarwah town at 7.30 pm today targetting a Police Gypsy Rakshak and CRPF personnel patrolling the town. A Balero car carrying passengers was also hit by splinters of the grenade besides the CRPF jawans.
Fourteen persons including eight civilians and six CRPF personnel were injured in the blast.
Police parties led by SP Bhadarwah Ashok Sharma, DySP Arif Rishu and SDM Talat Aziz rushed to the spot. Police and para-military personnel cordoned off the area and launched a search operation. The militants, however, remained untraced.
Injured were shifted to Bhadarwah hospital. They have been identified as Mukhtar Ahmed son of Mohd Iqbal R/o Idgah Road, Meraj Din son of Ghulam Mohd R/o Saraf Road, Zahoor Ahmed son of Mushtaq Ahmed R/o Bhadarwah, Arjun Kotwal son of Manmohan Singh R/o Khakhal, Kewal Krishan son of Shiv Lal R/o Seen Dara, Bhalla, Dalip Kumar son of Shiv Saran Nath, an Assistant Manager in PNB Bhadarwah and a resident of Jain Bazar, Jammu, Sohan Lal son of Hans Raj R/o Ramnagar and Manmohan son of Om Prakash R/o Adalgarh, Bhadarwah.
Six CRPF personnel injured in the blast include Hari Shankar and Hari Ram Kevat, both Havildars, Varinder Singh, R P Ambedkar, Dharamvir Rajan and Kum Bahadur, all constables.
Rajouri Police today recovered 14 kg RDX, 20 time devices, 20 electric detonators, 3 RCDs and some documents from a hide-out at Gurdanbala, Rajouri. Police party was led by DySP Headquarters K S Jasrotia under the supervision of SSP Rajouri Farooq Khan.
Meanwhile, a HUJI section commander Nazeer Hazaam alias Sajid son of Nasirullah Hazaam R/o Nagini today surrendered before security forces at Kishtwar in Doda district. He handed over one AK-56 rifle, two magazines, eight rounds of AK and three Chinese grenades.
The militant has been sent for questioning.
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GHALANAI: Tribesmen in Mohmand Agency voluntarily handed over a large quantity of arms and ammunition to the political authorities on Thursday, sources said. Haji Subadaar Safi of the Safi Masaood tribe conducted the weapons handover, which consisted of: four 12.7 mm guns; one anti-aircraft gun (AAG) with 127 rounds of bullets; two 14.7 mm AAGs with 47 rounds of bullets; and one rocket launcher.
Addressing the handover ceremony, Malik Zafar Khan Siyaal, a Safi Masaood tribal elder, said that the prosperity of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) depended on education not arms. He then called on his fellow tribesmen to shed decades' old disputes to bring peace to the region. "Peace in the region is only possible through education of our children and not by making them familiar with the gun," he said.
Welcoming the tribesmen's gesture, the political authorities offered to extend all possible help in ensuring that quality education be made available in the area. Political Agent also pledged to play an active role in bringing to an end internal disputes between tribesmen.
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PESHAWAR: Maulana Ahmad Khan, a tribal leader affiliated with the Ansarul Islam an organisation in Khyber agency backed by the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazlur Rehman group escaped an assassination as unidentified gunmen attacked the leader on Thursday, leaving him critically wounded. Khan was rushed to a hospital where doctors reported his condition as stable.
Pray for sepsis...
Khan was rushed to a hospital where doctors reported his condition as stable...
In a first information report, Khan accused supporters of Mengal Bagh, head of the rival Lashkar-e-Islami, for the attempted murder, and accused the group's bara Amir, spokesman Taib, Masri Khan, Haji Jan Gul and Niaz Bacha for attacking him.
Clashes between the two rival religious groups in Khyber Agency have resulted in a score of casualties in the past two months. Khan had previously called a peace committee to maintain the law and order situation in the area. However, after the formation of Mengal Bagh's Lashkar-e-Islami the peace committee had become ineffective.
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QUETTA: Two troopers died and three were critically wounded in a gun battle between Baloch militants and security forces on Thursday, while elsewhere in the provincial capital 12 civilians were injured in bomb blasts. Sources told Daily Times that an exchange of fire between Marri tribal militants in Kohlu and security forces began on Thursday afternoon and continued for several hours resulting in the deaths of two and injuries to three. The injured people were rushed to a hospital.
Two powerful bomb blasts rocked Quetta on Thursday evening. A blast in the city's Model Town injured 12 people. The second blast, which immediately followed the first, occurred near the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority office and damaged the building, but no one was hurt. Sources said that a bomb had been planted under a parked car in the area.
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The Pakistan government has ordered a crackdown against the Jamaatul Furqaan (JuF), the Al-Qaeda linked splinter group of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), after receiving intelligence reports that hundreds of the JuF activists, being trained at one of its Waziristan camps, were planning to target the western interests inside Pakistan. According to the intelligence sources, the crackdown has been ordered in view of sensitive agencies reports that the Jamaatul Furqaan was contemplating to target the British and American interests in Pakistan as a reaction against the atrocities being committed by the troops of the two countries in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Jamaatul Furqaan was contemplating to target the British and American interests in Pakistan as a reaction against the atrocities being committed by the troops of the two countries in Iraq and Afghanistan...
The JeM, led by Maulana Masood Azhar, has already claimed that the key plotter of the transatlantic planes bombing plan, Rashid Rauf, was actually a member of JuF. The JuF is providing bunches of volunteers to a Qaeda leader of the Arab origin who has formed a group Al-Jehad in North Wazirastan with objectives of carrying out attacks on the important personalities in the government of Pakistan and eliminating those who in their view are working in the North and South Wazirastan, detrimental to the interests of the Taliban.
Elaborating the formation of Al-Jehad, led by Abu Adil and being collaborated by Jamaatul Furqaan, the intelligence reports say that the group is involved in attacking the Pakistani security forces deployed in the Wazirastan region and the security interests of other countries including the US and Britain, deployed in the bordering belt inside Afghanistan. These reports say a religious seminary Madrassah Nizamiah, situated in Miran Shah, is being used to impart military training to jehadis who are recruited and sent to the Madrassah by one Qari Abdul Karim Khosa of the JuF.
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Anyone noticed how selective are these guys? They don't react to Jihadi atrocities in Algeria, in Darfur, in Somalia, about Taliban atrocities against Hazara or about the hundreds of thousand people deliberately starved to death in Soudan or (in times of Taliban) Afghanistan. They only care about the (mostly jihadis) people killed by the Allies and don't give a fart about the Iraki children bombed by Al Quaida
Two bombings have wounded at least five people near a government office in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province in southwestern Pakistan. Autonomy-seeking rebels have been waging a low-key insurgency in Baluchistan for a greater share of the province's gas resources.
Umar Draz, a local police chief, said the explosions on Thursday occurred seven minutes apart. The first bomb was planted in a car outside the office of the state broadcasting regulator, and the second went off on a plot of land nearby, he said. The blasts damaged several vehicles and shattered windows of offices and homes, Draz said. The wounded were taken to a government hospital. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombings, and police said they were still investigating.
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After an angry exchange, they took Mr. Saeed away without telling the family where he was being shifted...
was taken to an undisclosed location by police early on Thursday, the group's spokesman said. Mr. Saeed was placed under house arrest on August 10 for a period of one month. In a statement, JuD spokesman Yahya Mujahid said police arrived at Mr. Saeed's Lahore home at 1 a.m. on Thursday with a letter authorising them to take him away. Mr. Mujahid said Mr. Saeed's son asked for a copy of the letter but the police would not give him one. After an angry exchange, they took Mr. Saeed away without telling the family where he was being shifted.
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Lashkar founder taken to undisclosed place and slowly beaten to death
(PTI): Pakistan police has said the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group was put under house arrest because he was "planning to disrupt public peace," amid media reports linking a foiled airline terror plot with a charity headed by him.
... media reports said that funds given to charities including JUD for relief work after last year's earthquake were diverted to fund the terror plot to blow up airplanes...
Police told the Lahore High Court yesterday that Hafiz Saeed, chief of the charity Jamaatud Dawa (JUD), was placed under house arrest on Aug. 10 for one month "because he was planning to disrupt public peace" by organising a rally on Pakistan's independence day on August 14, Dawn daily reported. They also submitted before the court a notification issued under section three of Maintainance of Public Order (MPO), through which his house detention was made.
The police version came days after media reports said that funds given to charities including JUD for relief work after last year's earthquake were diverted to fund the terror plot to blow up airplanes going from London to US cities. Pakistan Foreign Office had earlier said that Saeed's detention had nothing do with the plot or with India's demands to take action against him in the aftermath of the July 11 Mumbai serial train blasts.
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was placed under house arrest on Aug. 10
UUmmmm, this is August 25th?
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Friday that Europe had agreed to provide the "backbone" of a peacekeeping force for Lebanon, providing nearly half of a 15,000-member contingent. European officials said it would take up to three months to get all the
bagels and donuts for the meetings to establish the criteria for the governance committee in charge of deploying the
troops on the ground. Speaking after an emergency meeting of European foreign ministers, Annan also said he has "firm commitments" from Malaysia, Indonesia and Bangladesh, and was consulting with Turkey about joining the peacekeeping force. Israel has said it would oppose the deployment of troops from Muslim nations with which it does not have diplomatic ties, saying their inclusion would make it impossible for Israel to share vital intelligence information with the U.N. force. "Europe is providing the backbone of the force," Annan said. "We can now begin to put together a credible force." By pledging 6,900 troops, European countries were able to
round up to "half" and pat themselves on the back and
overcome initial concern about being caught in the middle between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah, which agreed Aug. 14 to lay down arms under a U.N. brokered cease-fire after 34 days of fighting that claimed hundreds of lives and caused significant damage, especially in Lebanon. France, in particular, had held back from promising a large contribution and demanded a clearer definition of the mission and the rules of engagement. Annan said he asked France which dramatically increased its pledged contribution to 2,000 troops late Thursday to lead the 15,000-member mission
from Cyprus
until February 2007. French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said Annan gave guarantees for the safety of European troops and on rules of engagement, and that France wanted an arms-free "exclusion zone" in south Lebanon. "We think the best solution for disarming Hezbollah is to make an exclusion zone with the retreat of the Israeli army on one side and the deployment of the Lebanese army on the other, reinforced by the U.N. troops," he said. "Our objective is clear, to disarm Hezbollah," Douste-Blazy said, but added that military force was not the answer. "The only solution is to have a political solution." Annan said Hezbollah could not be disarmed by force. "The troops are not going there to disarm Hezbollah, let's be clear on that," he said.
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Seems clear to me. Why did Israel stop again?
Oh yeah. That france UN thingey. Yeah. That will do it. Permanent peace right there.
Mark my words. Hostages not returned, more rockets fired = Lebanon belongs to Israel full and parcel by GOD and GODAMN the UN or EU - anyone who gets in the way. It will not be stopped and it will be brutal.
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Debka says Iran is shipping in Scud B's to Hezbollah. That would be a major escalation and would almost beg for an Israeli pre-emptive strike. I'm betting this gets confrmed by other sources.
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Kofi's legacy is quickly slipping away from him.
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#8 Is this the first time anyone's seen the words 'UN' and 'backbone' in the same sentence?
No, Of course not, the UN lies all the time.
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The only purpose for the EU component of the UN force is to provide human shields for Hezbollah. The Muslim soldiers from Malaysia, Indonesia, etc are Hezbollah reinforcements. My opinion of Condoleeza Rice has taken a serious decline.
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Man, I did an IBS (Involuntary Beverage Snort) at the word 'backbone'. As for the 3 months to assemble the troops, are they swimming from Malaysia or what?
BAGHDAD, Iraq U.S. forces fired tank rounds at a mosque in the restive city of Ramadi Friday and exchanged heavy fire with militants inside, the U.S. command said, as Iraqis looted a base in the south after it was vacated by British troops.
One U.S. soldier was lightly wounded and three people were reportedly killed inside the mosque, while five people were killed elsewhere in Iraq in a relatively peaceful day in the country wracked by sectarian and Sunni insurgency violence.
Militants inside the Al Qadir Al Kilami mosque fired small arms, machine guns and rocket propelled grenades at U.S. forces, a statement by the U.S. command said. They also hurled hand grenades and a bomb, it said.
American soldiers returned fire at first, and finally unleashed several rounds from M1 tanks into the mosque, said the statement. "The mosque suffered serious structural damage to the dome and minaret," it said.
It said the attack occurred at about 12.30 p.m., a little before Friday prayers were due to start. It was not known if any worshippers were already inside.
Ramadi police reported that three people were killed and 23 people were wounded, but it was not possible to independently confirm the information. The U.S. statement said enemy and civilian casualties were unknown, but one soldier was injured who later returned to duty.
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Glad to see this. When they use mosk as an armory and fire base, it should be leveled without the slightest hesitation. Those tank rounds can do some real damge. Bet it surprised the ragtags, who probably imagined they were within a safe zone.
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I have some serious questions, beginning with, "why is this mosque still standing?" Another is, why weren't beehive rounds used, as well as AP, WP, and HE? Why is there still anything rising more than ten feet above the ground, and who's the idiot that called off the shelling? He needs to be tied to a post in the middle of the busiest street in Baghdad. For a month.
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AMARAH, Iraq - Looters ravaged a former British base Friday, a day after the camp was turned over to Iraqi troops, taking everything from doors and window frames to corrugated roofing and metal pipes, authorities said.
About 1,200 British troops had been stationed at Camp Abu Naji in Amarah, 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, and the base had come under almost daily attack. The troops pulled out Thursday to redeploy along the border with Iran to crack down on weapons smuggling.
Shortly after the troops pulled out, Iraqi police managed to disperse looters by firing warning shots into the air, said Dhaffar Jabbar, spokesman for the Maysan provincial governor's office. But the looters returned Friday.
"The British forces left Abu Naji and the locals started looting everything," 1st Lt. Rifaat Taha Yaseen of the Iraqi army's 10th Division told AP Television News. "They took everything from the buildings."
Men, some with their faces covered, ripped corrugated metal from roofs, carried off metal pipes and backed trucks into building entrances to load them with wooden planks.
Several Iraqi soldiers, apparently unarmed, did not seem to make any effort to stop the looting.
"There are only few soldiers at Abu Naji camp. Some of the residents were carrying weapons so they (the soldiers) did not want bloodshed and with such a big number, they cannot stop them," Jabbar said.
Lt. Tahseen Abid Ali said the Iraqi army had taken up positions in a corner of the camp, but was unable to stop the looting.
Another officer, 1st Lt. Ammar Karim Ahmed, said the army had seen "hundreds (of looters) coming toward the camp.First of all, we tried to stop them, but we saw some them were armed and our forces did not have enough people to stop them," he said.
When asked by a reporter why he was taking material from the base, one man, who refused to give his name, said: "This is war loot and we are allowed to take it."
On Thursday, Iraqi authorities had complained that the British withdrawal had caught them by surprise. "British forces evacuated the military headquarters without coordination with the Iraqi forces," Jabbar said. The British military rejected the assertion."The handover of the Camp Abu Naji was coordinated with the Amarah authorities 24 hours in advance," said spokesman Maj. Charlie Burbridge.
"It was understood that the governor was likely to use the camp as a police training camp," he said in an e-mail Thursday, adding that Iraqi forces had secured the base after the British soldiers left.
Burbridge said Thursday that British authorities could not comment on early reports of looting "because by that stage the camp was the property of the Maysan authorities and Iraqi Forces were in attendance."
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Sounds like what happened at Clark Air Base and Subic Bay in the Philippines when we pulled out of there. By the time the last americans left by the front gate, the place was stripped clean.
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Iraqi authorities had complained that the British withdrawal had caught them by surprise. "British forces evacuated the military headquarters without coordination with the Iraqi forces," Jabbar said. The British military rejected the assertion."The handover of the Camp Abu Naji was coordinated with the Amarah authorities 24 hours in advance."
24 hours isn't anywhere near adequate notice for the Iraqi military authority to arrange coverage. What a clusterfsck. It would have been better to recognize the loss and have no Iraqi troops in the area at all, rather than have this loss of face.
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It would have been better to recognize the loss and have no Iraqi troops in the area at all, rather than have this loss of face.
While I'm inclined to agree with you, KBK, perhaps if the Iraqi Army had gotten prior notice we might have been treated to the spectacle of them looting the British base instead.
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First thing to come to mind was the scene from "Patton" where the Arabs were looting Allied troop bodies after the Battle of Kasserine Pass.
As Penguin said, "Old habits are hard to break."
FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq, Aug. 24, 2006 Seeking a unified province free from terrorism and sectarian violence, leaders of groups in Babil came together Aug. 20 in Hillah, Iraq, to reconcile and denounce sectarian violence.
Tribal sheik leaders from the Babil province sign an oath in Hillah, Iraq, Aug. 20, declaring their pledge to work hand-in-hand with all sheiks and leaders from the province, regardless of religion or affiliation. The reconciliation conference was organized by Iraqi Maj. Gen. Qais Hamza, Babil provincial police chief, in an effort to unify the province and make a commitment to stop all sectarian violence and curb terrorism in the southern province.
Iraqi security forces leadership, representatives of the Iraqi national government, local government officials, social leaders, tribal sheik leaders and religious leaders joined together at the Iraqi police academy convention hall to map out a strategic plan to shape Babils peaceful future.
This was Iraqi-generated, Iraqi-led, said U.S. Army Col. John Tully, commander, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, an invited guest of the Iraqi leadership present at the conference. They are clearly trying to come to grips with the issues their society is facing.
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Color me skeptical, but who knows, maybe there is still a chance for Iraqis.
Tho, I would rather see Kurds splitting and down the road creating Greater Kurdistan comprising of Turkish and Iranian Kurd areas as well, beside the core in Iraq.
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Here's a solution that's sure to appeal to you, Barbara.
Six months from now, if Babil is still a terrorist hellhole, then round up all of the signatories of this reconciliation conference and have them shot.
(KUNA) -- Up to two people were killed and six others wounded Thursday in a car explosion in the southeast district of Baghdad, the Iraqi police said. A police source said in a press release that the car explosion occurred in Al-Mashtal area in southeast Baghdad. Two others were killed earlier today in an explosion that took place in southwest Baghdad.
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(KUNA) A soldier of Multi-National Forces in Iraq was killed Thursday in a bomb explosion near his patrol in southern Baghdad. A statement for the MNF-Iraq said that the soldier was killed when the vehicle he was driving bumped into an explosive device. Meanwhile, a source in the joint coordination center said in a press release that the Iraqi security forces discovered two unidentified bodies in Salah El-Deen province in northern Baghdad. One of the bodies was removed from Dajla River in Tikrit whereas the second one was discovered decapitated in the village of Biji.
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(KUNA) -- Iraqi law and order forces on Thursday arrested the head of the Mujahideen army in Mosul, the head of the police information center in the city, Brigadier Said Al-Jabburi said. He said the arrested man was called Abdel-Rahman Ali, also known as Abdel-Rahman Al-Ofari, who was the "leader of the Mujahideen Army in the city of Mosul."
Let's hope he was tripped a couple of dozen times on the way in to the stationhouse...
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Go figure -- Hamas want to take credit for getting hostages released from Hamas
GAZA CITY, Gaza -- Palestinian interior minister Siad Siam said Friday that efforts to win the release of two Western journalists snatched in Gaza were "encouraging," 24 hours before a deadline from their captors expires.
"Contacts are underway with Palestinian groups who are trying to secure the release of the two journalists. Things are at an early stage but they are encouraging," the minister told reporters in Gaza City.
He was speaking one day before an ultimatum for the United States to release all Muslim prisoners in its custody, set by their kidnappers is to expire.
The hostages were working for the US Fox News television network when they were snatched from a Gaza City street August 14 and bundled into a car.
Olaf Wiig, a freelance cameraman, comes from New Zealand and his producer colleague, Steve Centanni, from the United States.
There had been no news about their fate until Wednesday when the pair - looking healthy and relaxed - appeared in a videotape released in conjunction with a statement from the previously unknown group holding them.
The so-called Holy Jihad Brigades demanded that all Muslim prisoners in the United States be released within 72 hours, or Saturday at noon (0900 GMT), but did not say what would happen if the demands were not met.
The US State Department rejected the demands, insisting that the pair be released unconditionally, although US officials in the region have said that they were working with Palestinian authorities to try to secure the men's release.
Asked whether Palestinian security services had located the kidnappers, Siam said that it was too "early" to say.
"That should remain secret in order to support the efforts and I hope that they will be released. There is reason to be encouraged," added the minister.
The Hamas-led government, boycotted by the West, has repeatedly called for the two men to be released.
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"Ahmed, stop pointing that rifle at Mr. Centanni, put on this tie, and go out there and tell the press we are urgently seeking his release! Oh, and leave the rifle here."
A group of Lebanese relatives of former members of an Israeli-allied militia crossed into Israel Thursday night, seeking refuge from possible revenge attacks by Hizbullah in the wake of the latest fighting between the Islamic guerillas and Israeli forces. Defense Minister Amir Peretz ordered the small group of civilians, among them a child, to be allowed across the northern Israel border and receive humanitarian aide while their case is examined, a ministry spokeswoman said. She gave no further details, but the Haaretz daily said on its Web site that 13 people had crossed.
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Looks like someone's hit the Peretz tanker and its leaking liberal oil, everywhere. I don't think there's enough cat litter to clean up this spill, so the contamination of Israel continues.
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Taking care of one's allies is actually a good idea. It's not only good morally, it's enlightened self interest if one wants a chance at keeping a functioning network of agents in the area.
Yes, I understand. There are talking about the Christian militia that passed enemy intelligence over to the Mossad. What you don't understand is that, after Ehud Barak gave the Golan Heights in a capitulation land for peace deal, the "former-allied" Christian militia all moved to north Lebanon. The Christian militia felt abandoned by the Israeli government and felt it no longer safe to stay in South Lebanon.
How does the Israeli govt. know that they are former Israeli-allied militia? Do they have marks on their body to distinguish them or perhaps there is a Cray I database on every former Israeli-allied militia?
Maybe you want to do some research before you "post stupid."
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"How does the Israeli govt. know that they are former Israeli-allied militia? Do they have marks on their body to distinguish them or perhaps there is a Cray I database on every former Israeli-allied militia?"
The very same way I or my men would know the native troops we trained. Connections, maintained contacts, double-source verification. Likely there is even a data-base somewhere in the depths of the IDF or the Mossad.
Some of the SLA turned themselves in to the Lebanese government. Others fled to Israel and then returned to Lebanon later. It is these, I suspect, that went back to Israel. It was not likely a free-for-all, as you imply.
And flyover, I am much too old for a display of testosterone. I must treasure the little I have left.
The IDF struck the residence of the Aksa Brigades' operative Salim Thabet in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Saturday. Five people were reportedly wounded, as the home was completely destroyed. The army asserted that the home was also used to store weapons.
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hope they skipped the call
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"I'm sorry, the line you are attempting to dial has been fused and melted ..."
Do you ever get the feeling that all the IDF has to do is drop a lit firecracker on these "Gaza homes" in order to completely destroy them?
Two explosive devices were detonated on Friday morning near IDF troops operating in Nablus in an operation aimed at arresting wanted Palestinians. Some Palestinians opened fire on Israeli forces in Jenin. No one was harmed in either attack, though some damage was caused to an army vehicle in Jenin, Army Radio reported.
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(KUNA) -- Palestinian gunmen on Thursday blew up the border wall separating Gaza Strip from neighboring Egypt in the town of Rafah, witnesses said. The gunmen of Salah Eddine Brigades, military wing of the Peoples Resistance Committees in Palestine, an umbrella of several factions, blew up a section of the wall in protest of Israel's closure of Rafah border checkpoint, they said.
Palestinian policemen rushed to the scene and took measures after the blast left a large crater in the fence, and Egyptian security forces took up positions on the other side of the border to prevent infiltrations. The explosion came a day after the committees declared that a promise was made to reopen the border point, shut since several days ago. Some 2,000 Palestinians have been waiting to be allowed to cross on the Egyptian side of the border line since a week ago.
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Gunmen using explosives...thats the Gaza definition of multi-tasking.
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"Palestinian police ... took measures after the blast left a large crater in the fence, and Egyptian security forces took up positions on the other side of the border to prevent infiltrations"
Do any of these "measures" and "positions" include shooting anything that moves or tries to move through the hole?
If not - what a waste of time on both sides.
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This is the 2nd time they've blown the wall. Wonder how Egyptians like this ?
The body of an activist from the radical Palestinian group Islamic Jihad was found in the Gaza Strip near the border with Israel, Haaretz reported, citing Palestinian sources. According to the sources the victim was killed during an operation of the Israeli security forces in the region. So far the military command in Israel hasn't confirmed the information.Was it this guy?
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We've investigated and decided he just dropped dead walking along the alley. We don't really know nuthin' 'bout this here incidental.
Six Abu Sayyaf rebels were killed and four Marines were wounded during a clash in southern Philippine islands of Sulu on Thursday, the military said. The soldiers clashed with 80 rebels when they attacked an Abu Sayyaf camp in Barangay (village) Kabuntakas-Kaunayan in Patikul town, said Brig. Gen. Juancho Sabban. The raid was part of ``Oplan Ultimatum,'' military operations to hunt down the Abu Sayyaf chieftain Khadaffy Janjalani and two Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) operatives believed to be the masterminds of the 2002 Bali bombings which killed about 200 persons, said Gen. Sabban.
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PARIS - Iran has assembled and is testing 15 so-called P2 centrifuges which can speed up uranium enrichment, the process which makes nuclear fuel or atom bomb material, an Iranian opposition group said on Thursday.
If true -- a big if -- that cuts considerably the time required to process the UF6.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran said it had also located what it called a secret production site for the equipment near Tehran.
The claim, made at a news conference in Paris, came as Iran seemed headed for a showdown at the UN Security Council next week over its nuclear programme and facing the threat of sanctions for failing to freeze enrichment. Having P2 centrifuges -- more sophisticated than P1 versions -- would give Iran an increased capability to enrich uranium for nuclear fuel or atom bomb material.
According to information obtained ... at least 15 P2 centrifuges have been assembled so far and are being tested, said the NCRIs Mohammad Mohadessin. A secret project to make P1 and P2 centrifuges was launched about two years ago under the pseudonym Shams. He said the secret production site with three hangars was on a side road three km from a junction in the Pars district of eastern Tehran on the main road toward Damavand.
On Wednesday, an Iranian news agency reported that Iran would soon announce a breakthrough that would highlight its mastery of different areas in nuclear science and reinforce Irans position as a nuclear country.
And now it all begins to make sense. Wanna bet the Mad Mullahs have had P2 centrifuges spinning for a while?
Mohadessin said blueprints for the P2 centrifuges were provided in 1995 by disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan.
Khhhaaaaaannnnnnn!!!!!!!
He called for immediate sanctions against Iran, saying its leadership was bent on creating its own empire. Let me warn all those countries that seek to continue talks with the regime for their economic interests and prevent the imposition of sanctions by the UN Security Council that the mullahs Islamic empire would also seriously threaten their security and peace, he said.
Sure, you go ahead and convince the EU. Let us know.
Imposition of immediate and comprehensive sanctions against the regime is the first step to prevent the most dangerous regime in the world arming itself with the most dangerous weapon.
Separately, Mohadessin said Tehran was working day and night to be able to produce 14 kilograms of plutonium annually starting from next year for nuclear bombs. Plutonium is another weapons material which is made via a separate process to enriched uranium.
How nice, another situation we haven't heard about. What else do they have going?
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Still contend diplomacy ends and military begins immediately after November elections.
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Imposition of immediate and comprehensive sanctions against the regime is the first step to prevent the most dangerous regime in the world arming itself with the most dangerous weapon.
All true, except for that part about the "sanctions".
Moscow was still deliberating on Thursday night whether it would send forces to the nascent international peacekeeping force that will be deployed in Lebanon. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said it was not yet known precisely what the force's mandate would be. Earlier, France decided to expand its presence to 2,000 troops in Lebanon.
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Why sure, direct delivery of Hezbo weapons is always preferred by the Ruskies
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It cuts out all the middlemen. Nice to see that the commies are learning all about capitalist ways.
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Britains charity watchdog said on Thursday it had frozen the accounts of Crescent Relief as part of a probe into allegations that the charity was linked to a plot to blow up transatlantic airliners. The Charity Commission said in a statement that a formal inquiry has been launched into the charity 
(RIA Novosti) - Five alleged members of armed gangs have been detained in Chechnya, a police source in the southern Russian republic said Thursday. Four men were arrested in the capital Grozny Wednesday, when officers found two Kalashnikov assault rifles, two Makarov pistols, six rounds for a grenade launcher, six grenades and ammunition were found in their apartment. "Police detained four members of an illegal armed group in a rented apartment in Grozny after 7 a.m. (after 3 a.m. GMT)," a police source said, adding that their identities were being checked. 
(RIA Novosti) - Four Interior Ministry servicemen were killed and one wounded in an explosion at a garrison near a television tower in the Chechen capital, local police said Thursday. 
AUSTRALIA has offered to send military trainers to the Philippines to coach troops fighting Muslim militants as the two countries move closer to signing a military pact, Canberra's ambassador said.
An Aer Lingus flight from New York with 239 passengers aboard was evacuated in Ireland Friday following a threat against the aircraft, airport authorities said. Aer Lingus Flight 112 was evacuated during a scheduled stop at 2:50 a.m. EDT at Shannon airport in western Ireland, said airport spokesman Eugene Pratt. The plane was en route to Dublin.
(KUNA) -- Two suspected gunmen of the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), were killed in an encounter with the police in Doda district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir Thursday. The gunmen were killed in Khilandi, a hilly and thickly forested area in Doda district, news agency Indo-Asian News Service reported. The HM gunmen were active in the Doda district for some time, the news agency reported.
GHALANAI: Tribesmen in Mohmand Agency voluntarily handed over a large quantity of arms and ammunition to the political authorities on Thursday, sources said. Haji Subadaar Safi of the Safi Masaood tribe conducted the weapons handover, which consisted of: four 12.7 mm guns; one anti-aircraft gun (AAG) with 127 rounds of bullets; two 14.7 mm AAGs with 47 rounds of bullets; and one rocket launcher. 
PESHAWAR: Maulana Ahmad Khan, a tribal leader affiliated with the Ansarul Islam an organisation in Khyber agency backed by the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazlur Rehman group escaped an assassination as unidentified gunmen attacked the leader on Thursday, leaving him critically wounded. Khan was rushed to a hospital where doctors reported his condition as stable. 
QUETTA: Two troopers died and three were critically wounded in a gun battle between Baloch militants and security forces on Thursday, while elsewhere in the provincial capital 12 civilians were injured in bomb blasts. Sources told Daily Times that an exchange of fire between Marri tribal militants in Kohlu and security forces began on Thursday afternoon and continued for several hours resulting in the deaths of two and injuries to three. The injured people were rushed to a hospital. 
The Pakistan government has ordered a crackdown against the 
Two bombings have wounded at least five people near a government office in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province in southwestern Pakistan. Autonomy-seeking rebels have been waging a low-key insurgency in Baluchistan for a greater share of the province's gas resources. 
(PTI): Pakistan police has said the founder of 
(KUNA) -- Up to two people were killed and six others wounded Thursday in a car explosion in the southeast district of Baghdad, the Iraqi police said. A police source said in a press release that the car explosion occurred in Al-Mashtal area in southeast Baghdad. Two others were killed earlier today in an explosion that took place in southwest Baghdad.
(KUNA) -- Iraqi law and order forces on Thursday arrested the head of the Mujahideen army in Mosul, the head of the police information center in the city, Brigadier Said Al-Jabburi said. He said the arrested man was called Abdel-Rahman Ali, also known as Abdel-Rahman Al-Ofari, who was the "leader of the Mujahideen Army in the city of Mosul."
(KUNA) -- Palestinian gunmen on Thursday blew up the border wall separating Gaza Strip from neighboring Egypt in the town of Rafah, witnesses said. The gunmen of Salah Eddine Brigades, military wing of the Peoples Resistance Committees in Palestine, an umbrella of several factions, blew up a section of the wall in protest of Israel's closure of Rafah border checkpoint, they said.
PARIS - Iran has assembled and is testing 15 so-called P2 centrifuges which can speed up uranium enrichment, the process which makes nuclear fuel or atom bomb material, an Iranian opposition group said on Thursday.
Moscow was still deliberating on Thursday night whether it would send forces to the nascent international peacekeeping force that will be deployed in Lebanon. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said it was not yet known precisely what the force's mandate would be. Earlier, France decided to expand its presence to 2,000 troops in Lebanon.
